The Crime Report
AUGUST 3, 2021
While many states have made it easier for prosecutors to criminally charge officers accused in fatal shootings of civilians, Utah has made it harder. The new law allows those accused of a crime to ask for an extra court hearing if they believe they acted in self-defense. Recently, after West Valley City, Utah Police Sgt.
LawSites
JUNE 6, 2023
Noella Sudbury became interested in the issue of criminal records expungement soon after law school, while working as a criminal defense lawyer. Also last year, the Utah State Bar honored Sudbury with its 2022 Distinguished Service Award and, in 2019, Utah Business Magazine named her its 2019 Woman of the Year.
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The Crime Report
JULY 14, 2021
Law enforcement and other professions are not considered protected categories of people under the act. County prosecutors allege that the act was committed with “the intent to intimidate or terrorize another person,” which is a violation of Utah’s 2019 hate-crime law. The misdemeanor carries a maximum one-year sentence.
ALPS
OCTOBER 28, 2020
The Path to Well-Being in Law. And I got very interested in how court policy shapes not just the practice of law but access to justice, a court user experience, and really the lived promise of equal justice under law and how court policy, which might seem on its face kind of neutral and bland, can have a huge impact on that.
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
While the appalling circumstances surrounding my arrest and dismissal of my case didn’t make headline news, the event introduced me firsthand to the long-lasting harm caused by law enforcement agencies’ practice of publishing booking mugshots online. As a law-obeying citizen, I had never had as much as a traffic ticket. .
JonathanTurley
JULY 11, 2021
There is a troubling case in Panguitch, Utah where a woman has reportedly been charged with a hate crim e for allegedly “stomping on a ‘Back the Blue’ sign” at a gas station. We make them because they are right, right in the sense that the law and the Constitution, as we see them, compel the result. This is one of those rare cases.
JURIST
MAY 29, 2023
Would-be violators face a Class A misdemeanor charge, which carries a penalty of up to one year in jail or a fine of up to $4,000. Texas Governor Greg Abbott will now decide whether to sign the bill into law. The bill also includes a $10,000 civil penalty for each violation. The bill passed the House by a vote of 87 to 54.
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